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and clear. meantime, one week left. democrats chances to hold on to control of the senate may stand or fall in the south where several incumbents are in trouble. one namesake gives new hope. plus, trouble in paradise. a serious lava league in hawaii. folks are working to keep themselves out of harm's way. scary stuff there. good morning from washington. i'm luke russert. just eight days until the midterm vote. it's monday, october 27th. this is the "daily rundown." new developments this morning on the controversial quarantine policies for health care workers returning from west africa. last night, governors andrew cuomo and chris christie clarified their state's mandatory 21 day quarantine policies. both governors now say residents can be quarantined at home rather than a hospital.

the debate over happens is playing out in real time as a nurse from maine became the first person isolated under new jersey's new protocols. hickox ariled on friday and has been held in mandatory quarantine ever since, even though she's asymptomatic. hickok called her treatment inhumane. >> we believe that medically speaking there's no reason for the state of new jersey to keep her quarantined. >> new york city mayor bill de blasio says it is unacceptable to discriminate anyone who's treating ebola patients in africa or in the united states. >> i think the bottom line is we want to see all of our medical personnel who are part of this fight treated with respect and

dignity and support. >> the head of the national institute of allergy and infolk ch infectious diseases warns it could keep them from serving where it's so needed in west africa. >> i don't want to directly criticize the decision that was made but we have to be careful that there are unintended consequences. we need to treat them, returning people with respect and make sure we -- they're really heroes. the idea we're being a little bit draconian. there are other ways to protect. go with the science. that's what we're trying to do here in our government. >> governors cuomo and christie responded to critics. >> i understand miss hickox is uncomfortable and i understand she doesn't want to be quarantined but my responsibility is the 8 million people of the state of new jersey. >> they can have their family, whoever's normally there. it's not that they're stopping

their life. they have their full life. but if they become symptomatic, you will have limited the number of people they have had contact with. >> now, outside bellevue hospital in new york city. a little bit of a clarification we had there from governor cuomo. in fact, patients would be allowed to go home and have interaction with family members. what's the latest? >> well, here at the hospital, we've actually learned that there's going to be an ebola test performed on a young boy today who is actually in the hospital right now. now, according to the city's health commissioner who appeared on "morning joe" just a short time ago, this little boy had a low grade fever and he came here on friday to the united states from one of those three ebola-affected country. so that test is going to be performed today. they expect to have those results some time this afternoon

so we'll know what this case is. as for the first case, dr. craig spencer, his battle against the ebola virus continues. we're told he's in serious but stable condition. doctors do say he looks a little bit better than he did at the beginning of the weekend. when he first entered that new stage of the virus that is marked by gastrointestinal symptoms which is concerning but not unexpected in the course of this illness. the hospital says he also tolerated a blood serum transfusion of plasma transfusion very well. that transfusion came from nancy writebol, one of the ebola survivors. she said she was happy to give it and she's praying for dr. spencer. he's got well wishes coming in from all over the world including here in new york where he was visited by the city's may mayor. >> do we have knowledge about the folks who came into contact with dr. spencer before he was put in the hospital? i knew he had seen his girlfriend at some point. >> yes, she's actually his

fiance and she was actually checked into the hospital over the weekend. she was released on sunday. she's returned to her apartment in harlem where she's going to wait out the remainder of that quaranti quarantine. there were two friends of dr. spencer's who are being monitored. >> u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power is visiting all three west african countries struggling to contain ebola. the cdc says 4,922 people have died so far. nbc's chris jansing is traveling with ambassador power and has the latest from sierra leone in wet africa. >> reporter: we just arrived in sierra leone and the ambassador has a lot on her plate. let me tell you about a conversation we had on the way over here. she said the u.s. is asking international aid organizes to talk to their american employees and here's quote. if you knew when it came time to go home to see your family back in the states and you might be quarantined, would you still be

willing to work in an ebola infected area? the early answers have been troubling. here's the concern. the concern is they need americans here. they need americans to take the lead. american doctors, health care workers. we already know that the military has been in this region, setting up remote hospitals, health care centers. people say now they don't want to come here. it's going to set things back. we're at a point where there are 10,000 cases of ebola. there's another part of this trip. and it is really one that is all about diplomacy. it's about really putting pressure on other countries to get involved in this. money, but also that personnel, people willing to come over and be here and do the hard work. so far, the country has done some stuff. germany a little bit. but the vast majority of countries that the united states would like to see on board in a big way have not done that. that's going to be a big focus of what we see power doing

today, leading up to a big speech in brussels at the end of the week. >> chris jansing from west africa. i'm joined by the health commissioner who is leading new york city's fight against ebola, dr. mary basset heads the city's health and mental hygiene. thanks for being on shot. can you tell us anything about the new pediatric patient who was just admitted? >> i think you've pretty much got it. we have a young boy who came in with his mother. his mother's completely well. in the hospital, he had no fever until early this morning when he had a low grade fever. he will be tested for ebola. because of his recent arrival from an area where ebola transmission is ongoing. and then we'll know. >> you've seen these policies being implemented by governors cuomo and christie. are these real political policies or scientific policies from your reading of it? >> well, you know, i've been

working closely with new york city health commissioner dr. zucker. we had a chance to talk about the new policy, yesterday. you know the governor and the mayor talked more about them yesterday at the press conference. so he and i will continue to work together and getting through how to implement. >> at some point do you think we'll see a national policy? would that be better to get some sort of direction from the cdc or even the white house about how to specifically deal with ebola patients so you don't have different policies for each state? that is some kind of uniform policy so we don't see the questions that arise? >> my understanding is we should expect a policy from the cdc, at federal level, soon, by this week. >> in terms of calming the fears of new yorkers, they're obviously going to wake up and see there's a young boy, possibly could be patient number

two for ebola within the city, from where you sit right now, how long do you foresee having to deal with ebola in new york city? is this a one-month fight, a six-month fight? could this be a year? what are we looking at? >> i watched the clip with samantha powers visiting this really terribly stricken area of west africa where we now have an excess of 10,000 cases, everybody thinks that's probably an underestimate. i think every health official would agree until the west african epidemic is brought under control, we will have the ongoing risk of imported cases everywhere in the world. so the sense is this will take six months to a year. so this is not a sprint. this is a marathon. our obligation both morally and from a public health perspective to assist in the west african response is absolutely critical.

>> dr. mary basset, six months to a year of us monitor ebola, thank you, appreciate it. don't miss andrea mitchell's interview with ebola survivor nancy writebol. at noon. don't want to miss that. out of south africa, nbc news confirms prosecutors will appeal the oscar pistorius verdict and the sentence of just five years in prison. perhaps we'll have more on that later in the show. up next, momentum shifting to republicans just eight days ahead of the election but it's not over yet. the chuck bus, chuck todd express, rolling through north carolina. a lot of barbecue this weekend. chuck todd will tell us what's going on there, which races are getting even tighter as we head into election day. first, today's planner it t epl. the white house fence jumper is back in court this afternoon. and the steering committee at the white house. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality

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all right, you political junky, eight days to go, six brand-new nbc news polls, they show mo mmentum shifting toward the gop. but all are still true tossups. in iowa, ernst has a lead over braley. in colorado, gardner is up over udall. 46 to 45. in kansas, independent craig orman's lead has narrowed to one point. he's still ahead of republican senator pat roberts 45-44. down from a ten-point lead earlier this month. turning to arkansas, republican challenger tom cottonan's lead

over mark pryor has narrow to just two points. in north carolina, democratic senator kay hagan's lead is gone. she's in a dead heat with republican tom tillis. 43-43. libertari libertarian sean haugh gets 4% of the vote. mike rounds has a lead over rick weiland and independent larry pressler. overall, the president's approval rating sits at 40% or lower in all six states being polled, even in iowa and colorado where he won by healthy margins two years ago in that presidential race. congressional incumbents are not much more popular. of the seven we polled, just two, republican congressman tom cotton, only been there about two years, of arkansas, and cory gardner had favorable ratings above water, and that was just barely.

joining me, the director of the meris poll. thank you for being on the show. i was going through this over the weekend and something that jumped out at me is we're seeing races tighten within the gender gaps. what's the biggest shift you're seeing there within the polling within the gender gap? >> the democrats need to have a double digit lead among women. to offset their disadvantage among men. that in some cases has gotten narrower. the bottom line is, you know, what is the one factor that's going to make a difference on election day? any of them could. gender is clearly driving the discussion. mark udall's made that a huge issue in his campaign. and yet as we see in the numbers, he's hardly safe at this point. >> he is. you see it go further, there is

that real difference between married women and unmarried women. if democrats can get unmarried women to turn out, it would certainly help them. >> that's the best group, single women is the democrat's best group. then it becomes the ground game. and that really is for both sides now. absolutely krus lly crucial whee races that are single digits. >> two issues most important to voters which interestingly enough don't seem to be the one candidates are talking about, job creation and breaking the partisan gridlock. going through these tabs. almost across the board, if you're in favor of job creation, you're for the republican. if you're for breaking gridlock, you favor the democrat. eventually, how do you think that breaks down on election day between those two issues? s if though are 1-a and 1-b, who gets the benefit there? >> jobs openly are driving the discussion.

as you say, it's for different parties. republicans much more into the jobs. democrats, much more into the gridlock. it's a great irony. unemployment has come down. yet the job creation workingss the benefit of the republicans. then you have the gridlock. that's the one that plays to the democrat's advantage. so the voters are choosing sides based on something that may not actually be totally the fault of either -- or perhaps we might say the fault of both parties. >> and lastly, i'll just say this, lee. it seems, even though we didn't poll these states in this last round, with louisiana and georgia, that more likely than not a runoff is very possible. would you say that's probably the prevailing conventional wisdom right now, that we will not know on election night? >> look, we used to have election day. now we have early voting and the potential as you correctly identified for this thing to go into extra innings. so we may not know on election day, especially given a place

like alaska where the vote count is so slow typically. you need a majority in both of those states and we may not know in louisiana and georgia, more likely louisiana than georgia, but clearly it could be both places that there may be a runoff and this goes on and on and on and we'll be polling and talking in the future. >> if you root for the story and you're a political junky, we want the runoffs. we want senate control to be up in the air until january. how much fun would that be? thank you so much for all your help. >> pleasure, luke. >> with the 2014 campaign coming down to the wires, both parties are focused on turnover over the weekend in florida, home to one of the nation's most competitive governor's contests. civil rights leaders partnered to encourage early voting, drawing soul to the polls. >> all the pastures of the major churches can come and lead their

congregations now to the polls to cast their vote. we're not telling people how to vote. we're saying exercise their right to vote. >> republicans have to net six seats. republicans need to win three out of these seven other democrat held seats to get a majority. being an the democrats still have the possibility of a fire wall. with pickup opportunities in kansas and georgia and a long shot in kentucky. north carolina has been ground zero for outside spending this year. it's chuck todd's latest stop. over the weekend, the rnsc put this ad on the air using hagan's words against her. >> voting 92% of the time with the president, whether you support him or not, doesn't work here in north carolina. it is time for someone to reach

across party lines and finally get something done in this country. >> ouch. hillary clinton stumped for hagan, telling voters, there is nothing more important for kay hagan than who turns out. >> you can always count on kay to invest in education, not cut it and put our teachers and our students at risk. you can count on kay to raise the minimum wage, not eliminate it. you can count on kay to defend your right to vote, not suppress it. >> chuck todd moderator of meet the press join us where he's back on the road for meet the voters tour. you heard that from hillary clinton. diving into what had been local issues for north carolina. i'll ask you the question, it

seems to me north carolina comes down to what is more problema c problematic, kay hagan being attached to barack obama or tillis being attached to that conservative state legislature that had education cuts? >> exactly right, luke. it's interesting here partisanship being the closing message here that republicans want to make about kay hagen. and the reason why she has held up better than most democrat incumbents is because she's made hay over the partisanship in the state legislature. in fact, you know, that, to me, is sort of -- that's what north carolina voters are sitting on. sort of like what offends them more. one style of partisanship versus another style of partisanship. and that's -- you know, that's in many ways it's been the issue in a nutshell for voters all around the country. but it's especially accuute her in north carolina because they don't like -- there's a majority that don't like a lot of the

actions of the legislature. just like they're not happy with some of the one party control things that democrats did in those first two years that president obama was in charge. so that's the tug-of-war that's taking place here. ultimately, there isn't a swing voter, i don't think. this is about finding those that swing between voting and not voting. there really are not any persuadables left. >> your review of the polling, we talked yesterday on "meet the press." voting democrat. how do you see that play out on election day? >> i think it's interesting, republicans are trying to basically close with the gridlock issue. they're not closing with the economy issue. i think it's almost as if they know that is what is keeping them -- that's what's holding them back from being able to sort of take advantage of a national environment. what i'm curious about is what

is the democratic closing argument here. is it be careful, don't hand the republicans this, careful of this? it is -- there's a cleaner closing argument for the republicans, but is it a credible closing argument? and i think that, you know, you talk to some republicans and they know that that is their problem. that as much as they can make of president obama argument and get people to agree with them on it, they're not credible, they're not seen as a credible alternative. so that's the part of this that's the head scratcher. what do those voters do. >> a year ago at this time, we'd just come out of that government shutdown. chuck todd, north carolina, enjoy the barbecue, my friend. don't eat too much. take it easy. >> i will try. >> we will want to know why voting is important to you here at msnbc. tweet us using #msnbc vote. we'll check those out. up next, new concerns about a volcano that's been active for

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new developments in our top story. nbc news has learned nurse kaci hickox will be released. she's being discharged because she hasn't had symptoms in 24 hours. she'll have to quarantine at home. the governor's office has coordinated with officials and the cdc and she will be privately transported to maine we assume as soon as possible. joining me now is our guest, thank you so much doctor for being on the show. we appreciate you joining us. what's your reaction? to this latest news? new jersey is seeming to ease its policy and allowing the nurse to go back to maine. >> i'm glad they're letting her go back to her home. there's no ideal solution here right, but i think a 21 day quarantine period is reasonable

po for people returning. they might have had exposure. so far the people who developed ebola didn't realize they had it. didn't realize they were at risk for it. i think the quarantine period does make sense especially in a place like new york where if, you know, if ebola were to spread in new york city, the problem is it wouldn't just cause a problem, it would affect the international community because there's so many people that go in and out of new york. i do agree we should have it at home and make it more for these health care workers who are really heroes. >> was some new news this morning about the pediatric patient who was admitted into bellevue with signs of fever coming from west africa. obviously, that could be malaria. we don't know if it's ebola. do you think there's just a -- authorities are proceeding now with an absolute abundance of caution for all these cases? >> i think they are. i think that we have to be

careful because of course people can only catch ebola if they're exposed to bodily fluids. there's an exchange of bodily fluids. with a child, it's a little bit more risky because kids are not as aware of what they're doing and there might be more bodily fluids. i think it makes sense to be more cautious and just going back to the quarantine issue, i think that that -- it does make sense to at least stay ahead of the curve with one thing as opposed to what we've been doing with a lot of these situations really related to ebola where something happens and then we're like, oh, let's learn from our mistakes and change the policy afterwards. >> better to be cautious from the onset. good point you just made there with the pediatric patient who may not have the best control over their bodily fluids, it's best to really proceed with caution. now to washington state, where we learned overnight a 14-year-old girl who was shot in the head during that school shooting on friday has died. she is now the third person to

die from the shooting along with the gunman and 14-year-old zeeo. a hospital official read a statement from soriano's family. >> we're devastated by this senseless tragedy. gea is our beautiful daughter and words cannot express how much we will miss her. >> alleged gunman jaylen fryberg shot five people in his school cafeteria before turning the gun on himself. there's still no clear answer on his motive, although there are reports he was upset about a remember. as for the other victims, his cousin is in serious condition but improving. his other cousin, and another classmate are both in critical condition. the shooting has put new focus on an initiative that would require criminal background checks for gun sales. today, the parents of two children killed at sandy hook, they'll be on the ground in the state to try and push the initiative over the finish line.

nbc's joe fryer has been following the story and he joins me now. joe, do we know anything about the motive? >> you know, that's a big question everyone here is asking. law enforcement did not release much new information over the weekend. the motive still remains a mystery. a lot of people here say the gunman did not have a typical profile of a school shooter. he was a well liked kid. he was popular. a few days before the shooting, some friends tell us he had been acting a little more differently. he was a little more negative than usual. at this the point no one can pinpoint why he did this. especially because the victims were both friends and relatives. >> certainly something that does not fit a pattern of what we've seen. joe fryer from marysville, thank you so much. up next, what happens on the 2014 campaign trail could reveal tragedies for presidential

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potential 2016 hopefuls saying they'll decide on presidential plans after the 2014 midterms. is jeb bush tiptoeing closer to running? his son who's running for office in texas suggested he just may be. >> is your dad going to run for president? >> i think he's still assessing it. >> do you think it's more than 50%, less than 50%? >> i think it's more than likely he's giving this a serious thought. >> more than likely he'll run? >> that he'll run. if you would have asked me a few years back i would have said it was less likely. >> his grandmother doesn't think

that but interesting nonetheless. hillary clinton and elizabeth warren campaigned for martha coakley, she's struggling in boston. struck a populist tone. >> don't let anybody tell you that, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. you know, that old theory, trickle down economics. that has been tried. that has failed. >> populist hillary. elizabeth warren she stumped in new hampshire on saturday for jeanne shaheen. >> it did not cross my mind -- that after beating scott brown, what he would do is he would pack up his pickup truck and move to his vacation home in new

hampshire. you can pack up your pickup truck. but i don't care how fast you drive it. you're not going to outrun your voting record in the united states senate. >> another prospect stumed in two early stayed, iowa and florida over the weekend. says the next president should be a governor, but should it be him? >> made up my mind, won't make up my mind until the beginning of next year. i've got 36 governors races that i've overseeing right now in addition to a pretty busy day job but i'm not being coy about it. i'm obviously thinking about it. >> thank you so much for being on shot. jeb bush, we obviously have the statement from his press person christy campbell saying the decision has not been made. make a decision late this year.

the early part of next year. you talk, the establishment republicans are yearning for jeb bush to get in the ring. boehner will talk to anybody who will listen that he would very much like to see jeb bush get into a gop primary field. with the current party going so far right and presumably if chris christie gets involved, is there a real desire to see jeb bush, for him to be the church? >> certainly is in some parts of the party. we have seen that chorus get louder. at types, someone like christie who ran into problems with bridge gate or other establishment figures have faltered. a greater call for governor bush to get in the race. if you look at some of the polling, we did a recent poll after mitt romney. if you take mitt rockne omney o

the equation, he does well. i think that highlights the problem that he would have. he has said he wants to be able to run joyfully for the presidency. now this is not a climate in which it's easy to be joyful about being a candidate. >> especially where he is on immigration, education. >> a number of other issues. so i think there is a push for him to get into it. i think he's clearly interested in it. he has to get over those questions he's posed for himself. >> if he does run and he ends up losing, it makes it very difficult for his son to ever have expiratiaspirations at lea0 years. hillary clinton trying to get martha coakley over the finish line. hillary clinton, this populist mantra. is she trying to placate the fears of those on the real left she has been too corporate through her latter career? >> she has. we've seen her inching in that

direction through the course of the year. she began to talk about income inequality earlier this year as you get into the fall and if you get close to the election, the partisan rhetoric becomes sharper and she's reflected that. when i was in colorado last week, she was out campaigning for mark udall and john hickenlooper and there she struck a very strong message about women's issues. i think that in the long time i've watched her, we've all watched her, i thought it was one of the most ex-employment statements she had made about the importance of women's issues. she's obviously talked about this. but in a partisan and political sense, you can see that she's much more comfortable with that this time than she probably was in 2008 when we watched her. >> you first covered bush/clinton in 1992 and here we are talking about it being a possibility in 2016. everything old is new again. thank you. up next, as u.s. troops exit

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turning now to news overseas. a pair of major military bases have been handed over to afghan forces. a milestone on america's road out of afghanistan, perhaps. the last coalition forces were flown out of those bases this morning. it comes one day after the u.s. and britain transferred control of the camps located in one of the most dangerous parts of the country. the two bases were critical for the coalition. houses as many as 40,000 troops and contractors. most will be out by january. less than 10,000 americans are expected to stay into next year. u.s. forces are making their way out of afghanistan, there are still concerns that the u.s. may have to send forces into

syria to fight isis. the house intelligence chairman mike rogers said at the very least you can't rule out the possibility. >> we're going to need to allow special forces capability soldiers. united states and others to go down range with these individuals that we have trained both iraq, the peshmerga, and the iraqi shoulders and even in syria that would allow more effective fighting. if we don't do this now we'll get to the point where we have to have big maneuver military lnlts. >> in syria, the fight for the town of kobani still commands most of the headlines. more than 800 people have died there in nearly six weeks of fightin inging. the outcome is in doubt. iraqi kurds will help send military weapons but not troops. they managed to take a key city south of baghdad.

a suicide bomber attacked a check point. back home the concern is less about isis more about the people they may have been inspired by their ideology. we saw that last week. police in canada say the parliament gunman was driven by ideological and political mot e motives. officials in new york city say officers targeted by a man with an ax was targeted by a terroris terrorist. >> we're dealing with loner idiots who are sitting in their tighty wheaties in their mother's basement who are disenfranchised, disengaged from the rest of the community. >> joining me now nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel and ayman mohyeldin. richard, obviously the u.s. with these air strikes is trying to move militarily against isis. however, when it comes to the

war against their propaganda, there hasn't been much of a change before the strikes occurred. how can the u.s. do a better job of trying to tamper down the isis propaganda or are their hands tied in the digital world we live in? >> the best way to defeat isis is propaganda is by competing isis militarily. the group's best propaganda isn't success. there's is a certain segment of society that is watching isis, watching their military advances, and the group seems to be unstoppable. they have gone from mosul to baghdad to march toward the sigh off irbil. they deliberately try to exploit their reputation. both al qaeda and isis have english-language publications they put on the internet. both are quite well produced.

not very many spelling errors. clearly written by native english speakers. they are trying to inspire these kind of lone wolf attacks. they tell people not to come to syria. not to try to make their way through turkey, through the part of turkey where i am now and fight on the battle field but to get in their car, grab and action. those kind of things are hard to stop. it's going to be very difficult to pinpoint an individual who wants to grab a kitchen knife. that kind of attack isn't likely to do a lot of damage. it's a small policing problem as opposed to isis a very large militarily problem in syria and iraq. richard from turkey, thank you so much. ayman you heard richard there. it might not be a large scale problem but a small policing problem. certainly affects the psyche of americans here at home worrying that a lone wolf inspired by isis could pull something like this off. i was interested what michael

said yesterday the u.s. doesn't have enough people that understand islam and understand 15 to 29-year-olds. what can be done in this country to suppress the lone wolf extremism? >> this case it's not a matter of trying to understand islam. the problem with these individuals is not a religious issue. there are all kinds of both psychological, sociological, perhaps even ideological issues as a result of what we're seeing overseas play out in these individuals to try to understand the motivation of the individuals. focus should not so many be on religious text or the religious aspect of the religion but more on individual aspects, and what we're seeing in some of these individuals there is the case of the canadian parliament shooter, a criminal background, a drug problem background, there's a sense of alienation among them. there's a reason for their magnetic draw toward isis and carrying out the acts. it's not so much based in the religiouses a pektds of islam.

i think that's where the united states needs to really target these communities. find what is it that is making the individuals drawn to this issue and try to curb that from that perspective not a religious one. >> you hit it. alienate it, disenfranchise, the groups give the individuals some place to go. ayman mohyeldin. we appreciate it. that does it for us on this edition "the daily rundown." coming up next jose diaz-balart will have more on the nurse expected to be discharged from isolation today and get on her way to maine where she's going go home. he'll dig into the latino vote. you don't want to miss that. take care. horizons to map their manufacturing process with sticky notes and string, yeah, they were a little bit skeptical. what they do actually is rocket science. high tech components for aircraft and fighter jets. we're just their bankers, right? but financing from ge capital also comes

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in bellevue hospital, the same hospital treating new york's dr. craig spencer. doctors are evaluating a young boy as a possible young case. >> we have a young boy that came in with his mother, and in the hospital he had no fever until early this morning when he had a low grade fever. he will be tested for ebola. because of his recent arrival from an area where ebola transmission is ongoing. >> and we just learned that doctors without borders nurse casey hickoks will be discharged after spending the week in isolation inside a plastic tent at the hospital in newark, new jersey. let's bring in nbc isorthbound -